EP2034611A1 - Elastikwellenfiltereinrichtung und duplexer - Google Patents

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EP2034611A1
EP2034611A1 EP07744141A EP07744141A EP2034611A1 EP 2034611 A1 EP2034611 A1 EP 2034611A1 EP 07744141 A EP07744141 A EP 07744141A EP 07744141 A EP07744141 A EP 07744141A EP 2034611 A1 EP2034611 A1 EP 2034611A1
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  • the present invention relates to acoustic wave filter devices which utilize surface acoustic waves and boundary acoustic waves, and more particularly relates to a acoustic wave filter device and a duplexer including the acoustic wave filter, each of which includes a plurality of longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters connected to one another.
  • the balanced duplexer includes a transmission filter connected to an antenna terminal and a reception filter having a balanced-to-unbalanced conversion function. Since the reception filter includes the balanced-to-unbalanced conversion function, a component which is used to attain the balanced-to-unbalanced conversion function, that is, a balun can be eliminated.
  • Patent Document 1 An example of a surface acoustic wave filter device employed as such a reception filter device is disclosed in Patent Document 1.
  • Fig. 19 is a plan view schematically illustrating a configuration of electrodes of the surface acoustic filter device disclosed in Patent Document 1.
  • a surface acoustic wave filter device 1001 is a balanced longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter device.
  • the surface acoustic wave filter device 1001 is configured such that an electrode configuration is formed on a piezoelectric substrate as shown in the drawing.
  • the surface acoustic wave filter device 1001 includes an unbalanced signal terminal 1002 defining an input terminal and first and second balanced signal output terminals 1003 and 1004 defining output terminals.
  • First and second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 1005 and 1006 are connected to the unbalanced signal terminal 1002.
  • the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 1005 includes three IDTs 1005a to 1005c and the second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 1006 includes three IDTs 1006a to 1006c. Note that a region including the IDTs 1005a to 1005c is sandwiched between reflectors 1005d and 1005e in a surface wave propagation direction.
  • reflectors 1006d and 1006e are similarly provided.
  • One end of the center IDT 1005b and one end of the IDT 1006b are connected to the unbalanced signal terminal 1002, and the other end of the IDT 1005b and the other end of the IDT 1006b are connected to a ground potential.
  • One end of the IDT 1005a and one end of the IDT 1005c, the IDT 1005a and the IDT 1005c being on both sides the center IDT of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 1005, respectively, are connected to the first balanced signal terminal 1003.
  • the other end of the IDT 1005a and the other end of the IDT 1005c are connected to the ground potential.
  • one end of the IDT 1006a and one end of the IDT 1006c, the IDT 1006a and the IDT 1006c being on both sides of the center IDT of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 1006, respectively, are connected to the second balanced signal terminal 1004.
  • the other end of the IDT 1006a and the other end of the IDT 1006c are connected to the ground potential.
  • a balanced-to-unbalanced conversion function is attained so that a phase of a signal output from the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 1005 in response to a signal input to the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 1005 differs by 180 degrees with respect to a phase of a signal output from the second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 1006 in response to a signal input to the second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 1006.
  • Design parameters of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 1005 are the same as those of the second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 1006 except for the phase of the output signal relative to the input signal.
  • Patent Document 1 Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2002-290203
  • the longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter device 1001 disclosed in Patent Document 1 has the balanced-to-unbalanced conversion function, the surface acoustic wave filter device 1001 can be used as the reception filter of the balanced duplexer described above. Accordingly, reduction of the number of components of a cellular phone can be attained.
  • an attenuation in a passband of a transmission filter should be made sufficiently large.
  • the surface acoustic wave filter device 1001 disclosed in Patent Document 1 is used as the reception filter, the amount of attenuation in the passband of the transmission filter, that is, an attenuation out of a passband of the surface acoustic wave filter device 1001 defining the reception filter should be made large.
  • a transmission frequency band is lower than a reception frequency band. Accordingly, when the surface acoustic wave filter device 1001 is employed as the reception filter, an attenuation in frequencies which are out of the passband and which is lower than the passband should be made large.
  • an attenuation in frequencies lower than a passband considerably depends on frequency characteristics of IDTs, and is mostly determined by synthesizing the frequency characteristics of all the IDTs. That is, when an attenuation in a specific frequency band is to be made large, attenuation poles of frequency characteristics of a plurality of IDTs are made to coincide with each other, whereas when an attenuation in a wide frequency band is to be made large, attenuation poles of frequency characteristics of a plurality of IDTs are slightly shifted from one another.
  • the number of pairs of electrode fingers of the IDTs considerably affect a passband width and impedance characteristics, and accordingly, a degree of freedom of control is restricted.
  • the number of pairs of electrode fingers of the IDTs in the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 1005 may be different from the number of pairs of electrode fingers of the IDTs in the second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 1006.
  • boundary acoustic wave filter utilizing boundary acoustic waves.
  • the boundary acoustic wave filter attains a simple package configuration.
  • Objects of the present invention are to address the disadvantages in the related art described above and to provide an acoustic wave filter device capable of increasing an out-of-band attenuation without deteriorating balance between signals output from first and second balanced signal terminals and a duplexer employing the acoustic wave filter device as a reception filter.
  • an acoustic wave filter device including a piezoelectric substrate, first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters, each of which includes first to third IDTs arranged on the piezoelectric substrate in an acoustic wave propagation direction, an unbalanced signal terminal which is connected to input terminals of the first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters, a first balanced signal terminal which is connected to output terminals of the first and second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters, and a second balanced signal terminal which is connected to output terminals of the third and fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters.
  • a phase of an output signal of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter relative to an input signal is the same as a phase of an output signal of the second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter relative to an input signal.
  • a phase of an output signal of the third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter relative to an input signal is the same as a phase of an output signal of the fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter relative to an input signal.
  • the phase of the output signal of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter relative to the input signal differs by 180 degrees with respect to the phase of the output signal of the third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter relative to the input signal.
  • the number of pairs of electrode fingers of at least one of the IDTs of at least one of the first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters is different from the numbers of pairs of electrode fingers of the corresponding IDTs of the other longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters.
  • the number of total pairs of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter is equal to the number of total pairs of the third longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter
  • the number of total pairs of the second longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter is equal to the number of total pairs of the fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter
  • the number of total pairs of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter is different from the number of total pairs of the second longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter.
  • a balance between a signal output from the first balanced signal terminal and a signal output from the second balanced signal terminal can be further improved.
  • an acoustic wave filter device including a piezoelectric substrate, first to third longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filters, each of which includes first to third IDTs arranged on the piezoelectric substrate in an acoustic wave propagation direction, and an unbalanced signal terminal which is connected to input terminals of the first to third longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filters and first and second balanced signal terminals.
  • a phase of an output signal of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter relative to an input signal differs by 180 degrees with respect to a phase of an output signal of the third longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter relative to an input signal.
  • the second longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter has first and second output terminals, and a phase of a signal output from the first output terminal relative to an input signal differs by 180 degrees with respect to a phase of a signal output from the second output terminal relative to an input signal.
  • the phase of the signal output from an output terminal of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter relative to the input signal is the same as the phase of the signal output from the first output terminal of the second longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter relative to the input signal.
  • a phase of a signal output from an output terminal of the third longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter relative to the input signal is the same as the phase of the signal output from the second output terminal of the second longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter relative to the input signal.
  • the output terminal of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter and the first output terminal of the second longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter are connected to the first balanced signal terminal.
  • the output terminal of the third longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter and the second output terminal of the second longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter are connected to the second balanced signal terminal.
  • the number of pairs of electrode fingers of at least one of the IDTs of at least one of the first to third longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filters is different from the numbers of pairs of electrode fingers of the corresponding IDTs of other longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filters.
  • a duplexer includes a transmission filter and a reception filter.
  • the reception filter is defined by the acoustic wave filter device configured in accordance with the present invention. Since the acoustic wave filter device according to the present invention can attain an increased amount of out-of-band attenuation without deteriorating balance, an attenuation in a passband of the transmission filter at the other end can be increased in the reception filter, and deterioration of balance of reception outputs obtained from the first and second balanced signal terminals of the reception filter can be suppressed. Accordingly, a duplexer which has the reduced number of components, which attains miniaturization, and which realizes outstanding electric characteristics can be obtained.
  • the first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filters are connected to one another as described above and, in addition, the number of pairs of at least one of the IDTs of at least one of the first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters is different from the number of pairs of electrode fingers of corresponding IDTs of other filters. Accordingly, deterioration of balance is prevented and an increased amount of out-of-band attenuation can be attained.
  • the first to third longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filters are connected to one another as described above so that the balanced-to-unbalanced conversion function is realized, and in addition, the number of pairs of electrode fingers of at least one of the IDTs of at least one of the first to third longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filters is different from the number of pairs of electrode fingers of corresponding IDTs of the other longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filters. Accordingly, deterioration of balance is prevented and an increased amount of out-of-band attenuation can be attained.
  • Fig. 1 is a plan view schematically illustrating a configuration of electrodes of a duplexer according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
  • a duplexer 1 has an antenna terminal 2.
  • a surface acoustic wave filter device 3 according to the embodiment of the present invention defining a reception filter and a surface acoustic wave filter device 4 having a ladder type circuit configuration defining a transmission filter are connected to the antenna terminal 2.
  • the surface acoustic wave filter device 3 includes an unbalanced signal terminal 5 connected to the antenna terminal 2 and first and second balanced signal terminals 6 and 7 defining reception output terminals.
  • the surface acoustic wave filter device 4 has one end connected to the antenna terminal 2 and the other end connected to a transmission terminal 8.
  • the reception filter of the duplexer 1 of this embodiment is defined by the balanced longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter device 3, and accordingly, is a balanced duplexer.
  • the duplexer 1 of this embodiment is used in cellular phones employing a WCDMA system.
  • a transmission frequency band of the WCDMA corresponds to a range from 1920 to 1980 MHz
  • a reception frequency band corresponds to a range from 2110 to 2170 MHz. Therefore, a passband of the surface acoustic wave filter device 3 defining the reception filter corresponds to the range from 2110 to 2170 MHz, and accordingly, an attenuation of a passband of a transmission side which corresponds to the range from 1920 to 1980 MHz should be large.
  • the duplexer 1 has an electrode configuration formed on a piezoelectric substrate 9 as shown in the drawing.
  • the piezoelectric substrate 9 is defined by a 40 ⁇ 5° Y-cut X-propagation LiTaO 3 substrate. Since the LiTaO 3 substrate having this crystal angle is employed, reduction of an insertion loss of the longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter device 3 defining the reception filter is attained, which is preferable. Note that it is not necessary to arrange the transmission filter and the reception filter on an identical piezoelectric substrate, and they may be arranged on different piezoelectric substrates. Therefore, a piezoelectric substrate employed in the surface acoustic wave filter device 4 defining the transmission filter may be formed of piezoelectric substrate material suitable for the transmission filter different from the piezoelectric substrate described above.
  • the piezoelectric substrate 9 included in the longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter device 3 is not limited to the 40 ⁇ 5° Y-cut X-propagation LiTaO 3 , and other LiTaO 3 substrates, other piezoelectric single crystals, or piezoelectric ceramics may be employed.
  • the longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter device 3 defining the reception filter includes first to fourth 3-IDT longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 11 to 14. Input terminals of the first to fourth 3-IDT longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 11 to 14 are connected to one another and further connected through a one-port type surface acoustic wave resonator 15 to the unbalanced signal terminal 5.
  • the one-port type surface acoustic wave resonator 15 is arranged on input sides of the first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 11 to 14 and connected to the first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 11 to 14 so that a phase of the surface acoustic wave filter device 4 defining the transmission filter matches a phase of the surface acoustic wave filter device 3.
  • it is ideal to attain infinite impedance in a passband of one filter relative to the other filter.
  • the phase matching described above is attained without using a phase matching element. Accordingly, miniaturization is achieved, and reduction of a component mounted area in a cellular phone is achieved.
  • the first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 11 to 14 include first to third IDTs 11a to 11c, first to third IDTs 12a to 12c, first to third IDTs 13a to 13c, and first to third IDTs 14a to 14c, respectively, arranged in a surface wave propagation direction.
  • first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 11 a region including the first to third IDTs 11a to 11c is sandwiched between reflectors 11d and 11e in the surface wave propagation direction.
  • the other longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 12 to 14 have reflectors 12d and 12e, reflectors 13d and 13e, and reflectors 14d and 14e, respectively.
  • first ends of the second IDTs 11b, 12b, 13b, and 14b which are arranged in the middle of the first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 11 to 14, respectively, are connected through the one-port type surface acoustic wave resonator 15 to the unbalanced signal terminal 5, and second ends thereof are connected to a ground potential.
  • first ends of the first and third IDTs 11a and 11c in which the IDT 11b is sandwiched therebetween and first ends of the first and third IDTs 12a and 12c in which the IDT 12b is sandwiched therebetween are connected to one another and further connected to the first balanced signal terminal 6, and second ends thereof are connected to the ground potential.
  • first ends of the first and third IDTs 13a and 13c and first ends of the first and third IDTs 14a and 14c are connected to one another and further connected to the second balanced signal terminal 7, and second ends thereof are connected to the ground potential.
  • a phase of a signal output from the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 11 relative to an input signal is the same as a phase of a signal output from the second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 12 relative to an input signal.
  • a phase of a signal output from the third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 13 relative to an input signal is the same as a phase of a signal output from the fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 14 relative to an input signal.
  • phase of a signal output from the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 11 relative to an input signal differs by 180 degrees with respect to the phase of a signal output from the third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 13 relative to an input signal.
  • the surface acoustic wave filter device 3 has a balanced-to-unbalanced conversion function, and therefore, balanced outputs can be obtained from the first and second balanced signal terminals 6 and 7 as reception outputs.
  • directions of the IDTs 13a, 13c, 14a, and 14c are inverted with respect to directions of the IDTs 11a, 11c, 12a, and 12c, and as described above, the phase of an output signal relative to an input signal in each of the first and second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 11 and 12 differs by 180 degrees with respect to the phase of an output signal relative to an input signal in each of the third and fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 13 and 14.
  • first ends of the IDTs 13a and 13c which are nearer the IDT 13b sandwiched between the IDTs 13a and 13c and first ends of the IDTs 14a and 14c which are nearer the IDT 14b sandwiched between the IDTs 14a and 14c are subjected to series weighting so that balance between signals of the first and second balanced signal terminals 6 and 7 is enhanced.
  • the series weighting is performed by a configuration in which a floating electrode finger is provided between electrode fingers located in end portion of an IDT and an electrode finger located on an inner side of the IDT so as to stride across the electrode fingers.
  • this embodiment is characterized in that, in the surface acoustic wave filter device 3 having the first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 11 to 14, the number of pairs of electrode fingers of at least one of the IDTs is made different from the number of pairs of electrode fingers of corresponding at least one of the IDTs of another longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter, to thereby further suppress deterioration of the balance and increase an out-of-band attenuation.
  • This characteristic will be described in detail based on an experimental example.
  • the surface acoustic wave filter device 3 having an impedance on the antenna terminal 2 side of 50 ⁇ and an impedance on the first and second balanced signal terminals 6 and 7 side of 100 ⁇ is designed as follows.
  • a wavelength determined by a pitch between the electrode fingers of the IDTs is ⁇ I.
  • Crossing width of the electrode fingers of the IDTs 19.2 ⁇ I
  • the number of electrode fingers in each of the IDTs 11a and 11c 29
  • the number of electrode fingers in the IDT 11b 53
  • the number of electrode fingers in the reflectors 11d and 11e 65
  • Electrode film thickness 0.106 ⁇ I
  • the second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 12 has a configuration the same as that of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 11 except that the number of electrode fingers of the middle IDT 12b is 55.
  • the third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 13 has a configuration the same as that of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 11 except that the number of electrode fingers of the middle IDT 13b is 49 and the first and third IDTs 13a and 13c are subjected to the series weighting.
  • the fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 14 has a configuration the same as that of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 11 except that the number of electrode fingers of the middle IDT 14b is 51 and the first and third IDTs 14a and 14c are subjected to the series weighting.
  • the one-port type surface acoustic wave resonator 15 is configured as follows assuming that a wavelength determined by a pitch between the electrode fingers of the IDTs is ⁇ I. Crossing width of the electrode fingers: 14.6 ⁇ I The number of electrode fingers in an IDT: 241 The number of electrode fingers in a reflector: 15 Metalization ratio: 0.58 Electrode film thickness: 0.109 ⁇ I
  • the numbers of pairs of electrode fingers of the individual IDTs 11b, 12b, 13b, and 14b, each of which are positioned in the middle, are different from one another, and other design parameters are the same. That is, among the first and fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter devices 11 to 14, the number of pairs of electrode fingers of the IDT positioned in the middle of at least one of the longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters is different from the numbers of pairs of electrode fingers of the second IDTs individually positioned in the middle of the other remaining longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters.
  • a duplexer 1101 of a first comparative example is shown in Fig. 2 .
  • the duplexer 1101 has a ladder type surface acoustic wave filter device 4 on a transmission side which is configured as described in the foregoing embodiment.
  • a reception filter 1102 is different from the longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter device of the first embodiment. That is, first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 1111 to 1114 are provided in the first comparative example, and the numbers of pairs of electrode fingers included in individual IDTs positioned in the middle of the corresponding first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 1111 to 1114 are all the same, that is, 53.
  • Other configurations of the reception filter 1102 are similar to those of the reception filter of the first embodiment.
  • Fig. 3 shows transmission characteristics from the antenna terminals to the first and second reception output terminals of the duplexer of the first embodiment and the duplexer of the first comparative example.
  • a solid line denotes a result of the first embodiment
  • a dashed line denotes a result of the first comparative example.
  • Fig. 4 shows isolation characteristics which are transmission characteristics from the transmission input terminals to the reception output terminals.
  • Fig. 5 shows amplitude differences and phase differences between the first and second balanced signal terminals.
  • solid lines denote results of the first embodiment and dashed lines denote results of the first comparative example.
  • amplitude differences and the phase differences are values defined as follows.
  • a filter device having a balanced-to-unbalanced conversion function is a three-port type device.
  • A 20 ⁇ log S ⁇ 21 -
  • S21 denotes a coefficient of a propagation from the first port to the second port
  • S31 denotes a coefficient of a propagation from the first port to the third port.
  • an attenuation in a transmission frequency band C positioned on a lower side relative to a passband of the reception filter of the first comparative example is 54.5 dB whereas an attenuation in the transmission frequency band C positioned on a lower side relative to the passband of the reception filter of the first embodiment is 56.5 dB, which is improved by 2 dB.
  • an attenuation in a frequency band (hereinafter referred to as a "2Tx-Rx band") corresponding to a value obtained by subtracting a reception frequency from twice a transmission frequency in a reception filter should be made large.
  • the 2Tx-Rx band corresponds to a range from 1730 to 1790 MHz.
  • an attenuation in the 2Tx-Rx band D in the first comparative example is 43.5 dB whereas the same in the first embodiment is 48.5 dB, which is improved by 5dB.
  • an isolation characteristic of the transmission frequency band in the first comparative example is 58.5 dB whereas the same of the first embodiment is 60.5 dB, which is improved by 2 dB. Furthermore, as is apparent from Fig. 3 , a difference between an insertion loss in the passband of the first embodiment and an insertion loss in the passband of the first comparative example and a difference between a passband width of the first embodiment and a passband width of the first comparative example are negligible.
  • the synthesized characteristic in the passband is less influenced by a difference between characteristics in passbands of the first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 11 to 14 when compared with the configuration disclosed in Patent Document 1 in which two longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter devices are employed.
  • Fig. 6 is a plan view schematically illustrating an electrode configuration of a duplexer according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
  • the duplexer according to the second embodiment has a configuration the same as that of the first embodiment except that the numbers of pairs of electrode fingers of middle IDTs of first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 11 to 14 are different from those of the first embodiment.
  • the electrode fingers of the IDTs are roughly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 6 , and therefore, the numbers of pairs of the electrode fingers of the IDTs in Figs. 1 to 6 are different from those described herein.
  • the second embodiment is different from the first embodiment only in that the numbers of pairs of the electrode fingers of the IDTs 11b to 14b are different from those of the first embodiment, components which are identical with those of the first embodiment are designated by identical reference numerals in Fig. 6 to thereby incorporate the description of the first embodiment.
  • the number of the electrode fingers of the second IDT 11b of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 11 is 53 which is equal to the number of the electrode fingers of the middle IDT 13b of the third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 13.
  • the number of the electrode fingers of the middle IDT 12b of the second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 12 is 47 which is equal to the number of the electrode fingers of the middle second IDT 14b of the fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 14.
  • Other configurations are similar to those of the first embodiment, and a sample duplexer is manufactured and characteristics thereof are measured.
  • a characteristic of a propagation from an antenna terminal to first and second balanced signal terminals defining reception output terminals according to the second embodiment is denoted by a solid line, and the same according to the first comparative example is denoted by a dashed line.
  • Fig. 8 shows an isolation characteristic which is a characteristic of a propagation from a transmission input terminal to the reception output terminals according to the second embodiment.
  • Figs. 9(a) and 9(b) show amplitude differences and phase differences between the balanced signal terminals.
  • results of the second embodiment are denoted by solid lines and results of the first comparative example are denoted by dashed lines.
  • a difference between an insertion loss in a passband of the second embodiment and the insertion loss in the passband of the first comparative example and a difference between a passband width of the second embodiment and the passband width of the first comparative example are negligible.
  • the amplitude difference and the phase difference of the second embodiment are almost similar to those of the first comparative example.
  • the number of the pairs of the electrode fingers of the second IDT 11b in the middle of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 11 is equal to the number of the pairs of the electrode fingers of the second IDT 13b in the middle of the third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 13, and in addition, the number of the pairs of the electrode fingers of the second IDT 12b of the second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 12 is equal to the number of the pairs of the electrode fingers of the second IDT 14b of the fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 14.
  • the surface acoustic wave filter device on a reception side is configured so as to have a balanced-to-unbalanced conversion function using the first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 11 to 14, and the number of pairs of electrode fingers of at least one of the IDTs of corresponding at least one of the longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 11 to 14 is different from the numbers of pairs of electrode fingers of the IDTs of the other remaining longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters. Accordingly, a large amount of attenuation in a lower frequency band relative to the passband is attained.
  • the amplitude difference and the phase difference between the first and second balanced signal terminals 6 and 7 can be suppressed by setting the number of the pairs of the electrode fingers of the IDTs which transmit signals to the first balanced signal terminals 6 equal to the number of the pairs of the electrode fingers of the IDTs which transmit signals to the second balanced signal terminals 7.
  • Fig. 10 is a plan view schematically illustrating an example of an interstage filter employing the surface acoustic wave filter device 3 shown in Fig. 1 .
  • An interstage filter 41 is configured such that an electrode configuration shown in the drawing is formed on a piezoelectric substrate 42.
  • the electrode configuration is the same as that of the surface acoustic wave filter device 3 shown in Fig. 1 . Therefore, components which are identical with those of the surface acoustic wave filter device 3 of Fig. 1 are designated by identical reference numerals, and duplicate description thereof is omitted.
  • Fig. 11 is a plan view schematically illustrating a modification of the longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter device 3 according to the foregoing embodiments.
  • a surface acoustic wave filter device 51 of this modification an electrode configuration is formed on a piezoelectric substrate 52 as shown in the drawing.
  • first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 61 to 64 are arranged.
  • the first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 61 to 64 have first to third IDTs 61a to 61c, first to third IDTs 62a to 62c, first to third IDTs 63a to 63c, and first to third IDTs 64a to 64c, respectively, which are arranged in a surface wave propagation direction.
  • a region including the IDTs 61a to 61c is sandwiched between reflectors 61d and 61e in the surface wave propagation direction.
  • the other longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter devices 62 to 64 have reflectors 62d and 62e, reflectors 63d and 63e, and reflectors 64d and 64e, respectively.
  • first ends of the first and third IDTs 61a and 61c, the first and third IDTs 62a and 62c, the first and third IDTs 63a and 63c, and the first and third IDTs 64a and 64c which are arranged on both sides of the first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 61 to 64, respectively, are connected to one another and further connected through a one-port type surface acoustic wave resonator 15 to an unbalanced signal terminal 5, and second ends of the first and third IDTs 61a and 61c, the first and third IDTs 62a and 62c, the first and third IDT 63a and 63c, and the first and third IDTs 64a and 64c are connected to a ground potential.
  • first ends of the second IDTs 61b and 62b arranged in the middle of the first and second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 61 to 62, respectively, are connected to each other and further connected to a first balanced signal terminal 6, and second ends of the second IDTs 61b and 62b are connected to the ground potential.
  • first ends of the second IDTs 63b and 64b arranged in the middle of the third and fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 63 to 64, respectively, are connected to each other and further connected to a second balanced signal terminal 7, and second ends of the second IDTs 63b and 64b are connected to the ground potential.
  • the second IDTs arranged in the middle of the first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 61 to 64 may be connected to the balanced signal terminals, and the first and third IDTs arranged on both sides of the first to fourth longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 61 to 64 may be connected to the unbalanced signal terminal.
  • Fig. 12 is a plan view schematically illustrating a duplexer according to a third embodiment of the present invention.
  • a duplexer 101 according to the third embodiment has a piezoelectric substrate 102.
  • the piezoelectric substrate 102 is defined by 40 ⁇ 5° Y-cut X-propagation LiTaO 3 .
  • the duplexer 101 of the third embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment except that a surface acoustic wave filter device 103 on a reception side is different from the surface acoustic wave filter device 3 on the reception side of the first embodiment. Therefore, components which are identical with those of the surface acoustic wave filter device 3 of Fig. 1 are designated by identical reference numerals, and duplicate description thereof is omitted.
  • the duplexer 101 of this embodiment is also a balanced duplexer employing a WCDMA system, and includes an antenna terminal 2, unbalanced signal terminal 5, first and second balanced signal terminals 6 and 7, and a transmission terminal 8.
  • a surface acoustic wave filter device 103 defining a reception filter includes a one-port type surface acoustic wave resonator 15 connected to the unbalanced signal terminal 5. Then, three filters, that is, first to third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 111 to 113 are arranged so as to be connected to the unbalanced signal terminal 5 through the one-port type surface acoustic wave resonator 15.
  • the first to third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 111 to 113 have first to third IDTs 111a to 111c, first to third IDTs 112a to 112c, and first to third IDTs 113a to 113c, respectively, which are arranged in a surface wave propagation direction.
  • a region including the three IDTs 111a to 111c is sandwiched between reflectors 111d and 111e in the surface wave propagation direction.
  • the second and third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 112 and 113 have reflectors 112d and 112e and reflectors 113d and 113e, respectively.
  • first ends of the second IDTs 111b to 113b arranged in the middle of the first to third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 111 to 113 are connected to one another and further connected to the unbalanced signal terminal 5 through the one-port type surface acoustic wave resonator 15, and second ends of the IDTs 111b to 113b are connected to a ground potential.
  • first ends of the first and third IDTs 111a and 111c of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 111 and a first end of the first IDT 112a of the second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter unit are connected to one another and further connected to the first balanced signal terminal 6, and second ends of the IDTs 111a, 111c and 112a are connected to the ground potential.
  • a first end of the third IDT 112c of the second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 112 and first ends of the first and third IDTs 113a and 113c of the third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 113 are connected to one another and further connected to the second balanced signal terminal 7, and second ends of the IDTs 112c, 113a and 113c are connected to the ground potential.
  • polarities of the IDT 112c, 113a, and 113c are inverted relative to polarities of the IDTs 111a, 111c, and 112a so that a phase of a signal output from the IDTs 111a, 111c, and 112a differs by 180 degrees with respective to a phase of a signal output from the IDTs 112c, 113a, and 113c.
  • a balanced-to-unbalanced conversion function is realized.
  • a configuration in which directions of the IDTs are controlled so that a phase of a signal output from the first balanced signal terminal 6 in response to a signal input on the first balanced signal terminal 6 differs by 180 degrees with respect to a phase of a signal output from the second balanced signal terminal 7 in response to a signal input on the second balanced signal terminal 7 is not limited to the configuration shown in the drawing.
  • balance is improved by a series weighting method in this embodiment. That is, a first side-end of the IDT 112c which is nearer the second IDT 112b and first side-ends of the IDTs 113a and 113c which are nearer the second IDT 113b are subjected to series weighting.
  • the number of pairs of electrode fingers of the IDTs of at least one of the first to third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 111 to 113 is different from the number of pairs of electrode fingers of corresponding IDTs of the other remaining first to third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters. Accordingly, an increased amount of an out-of-band attenuation can be attained without deteriorating the balance. This will become apparent from a detailed description of a result of an experiment of the third embodiment as an experimental example.
  • the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 111 is designed using the following parameters. Note that a wavelength determined by a pitch between the electrode fingers of the IDTs is ⁇ I. Crossing width of the electrode fingers: 28.8 ⁇ I
  • the number of electrode fingers in each of the first and third IDTs 11a and 11c 29
  • the number of electrode fingers in the second IDT 11b 51
  • the number of electrode fingers in the reflectors 11d and 11e 65
  • Metalization ratio 0.67
  • Electrode film thickness 0.106 ⁇ I
  • the second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 112 is configured using the design parameters as described above except that a direction of the IDT 112c is inverted relative to a direction of the IDT 111c, the series weighting is performed on the IDT 112c, and the number of electrode fingers of the middle IDT 113b is 57.
  • the third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 113 is configured using the design parameters as described above except that directions of the first and third IDTs 113a and 113c are inverted relative to directions of the first and third IDTs 111a and 111c of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter, and the series weighting is performed on the first and third IDTs 113a and 113c.
  • the surface acoustic wave resonator 15 is designed using the following parameters assuming that a wavelength determined by a pitch between the electrode fingers of the IDTs is ⁇ I. Crossing width of the electrode fingers: 14.6 ⁇ I The number of electrode fingers in an IDT: 241 The number of electrode fingers in a reflector: 15 Metalization ratio: 0.58 Electrode film thickness: 0.109 ⁇ I
  • the duplexer 101 including the surface acoustic wave filter device 103 configured as described above defining a reception filter is manufactured.
  • a duplexer 1201 shown in Fig. 13 is provided for comparison.
  • the duplexer 1201 of a second comparative example is the same as that of the third embodiment except that the numbers of pairs of electrode fingers of IDTs arranged in the middle of first to third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 1211 to 1213 are all 53.
  • Fig. 14 shows transmission characteristics from the antenna terminals to the first and second reception output terminals according to the third embodiment and the second comparative example.
  • Fig. 15 shows isolation characteristics which are transmission characteristics from the transmission input terminals to the reception output terminals.
  • Figs. 16(a) and 16(b) show amplitude differences and phase differences, respectively, between the balanced signal terminals.
  • solid lines denote results of the third embodiment, and dashed lines denote results of the second comparative example.
  • an attenuation in a transmission frequency band C positioned on a lower side relative to a passband of the second comparative example is 56.0 dB whereas an attenuation in the transmission frequency band C positioned on a lower side relative to the passband of the third embodiment is 57.0 dB, which is improved by 1.0 dB.
  • An attenuation in the 2Tx-Rx band D described above in the second comparative example is the same as that in the third embodiment.
  • an insertion loss and a passband width of the third embodiment are almost the same as those of the second comparative example.
  • a difference between the isolation characteristics of the third embodiment and the second comparative example is negligible as shown in Fig. 15 .
  • the amplitude difference and the phase difference of the third embodiment are also almost the same as those of the second comparative example as shown in Figs. 16(a) and 16(b) . That is, an increased amount of attenuation in the transmission frequency band is attained without deteriorating other electric characteristics. A reason for this is the same as that of the first embodiment.
  • the number of pairs of electrode fingers of the IDTs of at least one of the longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters is different from the number of pairs of electrode fingers of corresponding IDTs of the other remaining longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters. Accordingly, an increased amount of attenuation in the frequency band lower than the passband can be attained without deteriorating the balance.
  • an interstage filter 121 schematically shown in a plan view of Fig. 17 may be defined by the surface acoustic wave filter device 103. That is, in the interstage filter 121, a configuration the same as the configuration of the surface acoustic wave filter device 103 is connected between an input terminal 122 and first and second balanced signal terminals 123 and 124 so that the interstage filter 121 is realized.
  • the surface acoustic wave filter device 103 may be used as not only a duplexer but also an interstage filter including a combination of longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters and a surface acoustic wave resonator.
  • Fig. 18 is a plan view schematically illustrating a modification of the surface acoustic wave filter device according to the third embodiment.
  • first ends of first and third IDTs 141a and 141c, first and third IDTs 142a and 142c, and first and third IDTs 143a and 143c which are arranged both sides of the first to third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 141 to 143, respectively, in a surface wave propagation direction, are connected to one another and further connected to an unbalanced signal terminal 5 through a one-port type surface acoustic wave resonator 15.
  • a second IDT 142b arranged in the middle of the second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 142 is divided into two in the surface wave propagation direction so that a first sub-IDT portion 142b1 and a second sub-IDT portion 142b2 are obtained.
  • the IDT 141b arranged in the middle of the first longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 141 and the first sub-IDT portion 142b1 are connected to each other and further connected to a first balanced signal terminal 6.
  • the other end of the IDT 142b is connected to a ground potential.
  • a first end of the second divided IDT section 142b2 and a first end of the second IDT 143b arranged in the middle of the third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 143 are connected to each other and further connected to a second balanced signal terminal 7.
  • a second end of the IDT 143b is connected to the ground potential.
  • One end of the second longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filter 142 is also connected to the ground potential.
  • the first and third IDTs can be connected to the unbalanced signal terminal 5, the second IDTs arranged in the middle are connected to the balanced signal terminals 6 and 7.
  • the number of pairs of electrode fingers of the IDT positioned in the middle of at least one of the first and third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters is different from the numbers of pairs of electrode fingers of the IDTs of the other remaining longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters. Accordingly, an increased amount of out-of-band attenuation can be attained without deteriorating balance.
  • the number of electrode fingers of the IDT 142b should be an even number.
  • the numbers of electrode fingers of the second IDTs 141b and 143b arranged in the middle of the IDTs 141 and 143, respectively, are odd numbers, the numbers of the electrode fingers of the IDTs 141b and 143b are originally different from the number of the electrode fingers of the IDT 142.
  • the numbers of the pairs of the electrode fingers of the IDTs 141b and 143b included in the first and third longitudinally coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave filters 141 and 143 should be different from the number of electrode fingers of the IDT 142b by two or more.
  • the present invention is not limited to the one utilizing surface acoustic waves, and may be an acoustic wave device utilizing other acoustic waves such as boundary acoustic waves. That is, an electrode configuration the same as that in the one of the foregoing embodiments may be formed on a interface between a piezoelectric substance and a dielectric substance to thereby constitute an acoustic boundary wave filter device.

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